so of course hyperbaric oxygen therapy is all about breathing it's all about laying down breathing relaxing and bringing that oxygen into our bodies we all know that increasing our oxygen levels will improve cellular function but do we need a hyperbaric chamber for that what if we had improved breath work techniques that we did at the surface to allow us to bring more oxygen wouldn't that still help and let's take that one step further can we do breath work sessions inside the chamber combining both everybody's looking for an angle to save time so I I could do my Hyperbaric sessions I could do my breath work can I do my breath work in my Hyperbaric session that is the topic for today's video so let's start with this most people do not breathe efficiently and fully most of us have poor posture most of us sniff right shallow breaths chest breaths and we spend most of our day in our sympathetic nervous system stressed out and sniffing the air that we're breathing so let's just start by saying any attempt at improving our breathing brething at improving diaphragmatic breathing instead of chest breathing at improving our CO2 tolerance at learning new and different ways of doing breath work to breathe faster breathe slower bring more oxygen into our body and to build that CO2 tolerance all of that's going to improve our health Hyperbaric specifically is a mechanism to deliver an amount a quantity of oxygen that just cannot be created at the surface it's using pressure to drive oxygen to not only saturate our red blood cells but to Super saturate our plasma it's in a bit of a different category because of the amount of oxygen that we could actually drive into a person's body using a tool like that but at the same time simple breaks in a day just to do your breath work your breath work sessions and develop your breathwork practice will absolutely shift your autonomic nervous system back into parasympathetics will drive more oxygen into your cells will help you build that tolerance to CO2 will help to balance neurotransmitters and release some nitric oxide in your system so all of this is going to be great and improve your health so yes breath work should absolutely be a part of everybody's daily practice learning new and different types of breath work just like you would with exercise to develop a repertoire of different types that you're able to do cuz each one has its own specific benefits two versions of breath work that I like to do would be box breathing and breath holding box breathing because it's a relatively easy strategy and it allows me to get back into my parasympathetic nervous system box breathing is what it sounds like a box so you pick a period of time that you inhale hold exhale and then hold so let's say 4 seconds in hold for 4 seconds 4 seconds out hold for 4 seconds and repeat you could do three seconds you could do five 8 15 seconds but for me and many other people box breathing could be a tremendous technique for really reducing sympathetic nervous system activity and improving parasympathetic tone CO2 tolerance or breath holding is another great way to learn to a adapt to CO2 and there's a lot of great benefits to that and B also help improve that autonomic nervous system balance breath holding is exactly what it sounds like holding your breath and doing it for a period of time there's different strategies for that some hold your breath on the way in some would have you repeat rapid inhalation and exhalations and then hold on an exhale much like Wim Hoff breathing Wim Hoff is a great technique that I've also used many times over the years specifically I do a lot of scuba diving and free diving so for me to learn how to hold my breath and to hold my breath on the inhalation really helps me train for those free diving experiences I'm not necessarily particular for which ones you choose but absolutely believe that it should be part of a decision that you make as a practice in your daily life we are on a mission to make sure that the people looking for this information have access to it I know that there's a lot of content out there and I know that it could be very confusing when people are trying to find the answers that they're looking for and it's really important for me that those people can find these answers so when you like it when you subscribe and when you share these videos that helps the people looking for this content know that they're getting a trustworthy source and they're getting the information that they're trying to find so please do that and help us help other people lastly is this question can I combine my breath work sessions or my breath work training in the hyperbaric chamber and the answer is sometimes yes but please be careful here's the story while the chamber is pressurizing you should be relaxed and just breathing normally why because you need to equalizing your ears and you want to be paying attention to the pressure building up in your ears to make sure that you're equalizing and keeping up the pace of the pressure as it's building up making sure that you're staying equalized throughout that entire Journey also breathing is what equalizes your lungs so Every Breath You Take in and out is allowing you to equalize at the depth that you are at the time of that breath so lungs are equalizing as you're breathing and then you're paying attention and clearing your ears as needed during that pressure process during the depressurization process the same thing is happening your ears need a way of equalizing as you're ascending back up which for the most part is going to take care of itself actually but you might want to be moving your jaw yawning a little bit and allowing that gas to release from your ears also your lungs are equalizing back to the surface as you're depressurizing the chamber and you certainly want to make sure that the lungs are equalizing throughout that asent the most dangerous thing somebody can do do in a hyperbaric chamber is to hold their breath as the chamers is depressurize it it's called pulmonary overinflation so just to give you some numbers if you took a biggest breath you could right now let's say we're holding 50 units of air in our lungs and now I take you to two atmospheres inside the chamber and I ask you to take that same breath you're going to get 50 units of air in your lungs at that breath but now as I bring you back to the surface that air is going to expand twice the size so if you're l are at full capacity and now you're coming up to the surface and they keep expanding that's a pulmonary overinflation injury pulmonary barot trauma there's five different types we're not going to go into the details all I'm going to tell you is breathholding on the asent phase of a dive whether it's in the water or in a chamber is literally one of the most dangerous things somebody can do so it's critical that during the pressurization and the depressurization of that chamber that you or patients whoever's in the chamber is relaxed and just is breathing normally while the chamber is at the depth that you're going to stay at that's a safer place to do breath work sessions whether that's box breathing or holotropic breath work or breath holding choosing to do a breath work session or breathwork training at the depth would generally be considered a safe time to do something like that now the most dangerous thing that could happen would be a rapid decompression during a breath hold the same thing not holding your breath while the chamber's depress pressurizing and in an emergency situation something like that could happen assuming that you're safe that your chamber is working well that there aren't any emergencies and you could be relaxed inside your chamber doing breath work sessions in a chamber at depth can be considered a safe thing to do and would also continue to drive increasing levels of oxygen into our body breath work techniques are fabulous and yes you should be doing them daily and yes as long as the chamber is at a pressure and that pressure is remaining static not during the pressure ation not during the depressurization and being aware of emergencies so that you can return to normal breathing if there was an emergency while the chamber is held at a certain depth doing some breath work activity could be a great place to really improve the oxygenation of your C while in the chamber and combining your breath work session with your Hyperbaric session hope that answers that question we do get it pretty often and I'll see you on the next video [Music]